Quotes about Blame

“Blame is a lazy man's wages.”

“I praise loudly, I blame softly.”

“Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.”

“When we blame, we give away our power.”

“It's easy to point when you can't heal it.”

“No one is a failure until they blame somebody else.”

“The search for someone to blame is always successful.”

“They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.”

“To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”

“Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.”

“Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”

“There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.”

“A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.”

“Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.”

“Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.”

“He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.”

“There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.”

“In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.”

“A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.”

“The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.”

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.”

“Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.”

“We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.”

“There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.”

“No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”

“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. -”